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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

The Guardian: Broken by the bends: the deadly toll on Honduras’s Indigenous lobster divers

The Guardian: ‘Toxic trail of pollution’: states step up to curb the use of ‘forever chemicals’

LA Times: SpaceX used wildlife preserve as ‘dumping ground for space waste,’ lawsuit alleges

LA Times: Epic snowpack upends rhythms of life for many species in Sierra Nevada range

LA Times: Low wages, short hours drive many fast-food workers into homelessness

LA Times: California to receive $500,000 from alleged Medi-Cal defraudment scheme

LA Times: Hollywood writers strike over streaming pay after talks fail

KTLA: 2 teens stabbed near Los Angeles High School in Mid-Wilshire

KTLA: Fired California Big Lots manager says she was just trying to get shopping cart back from shoplifter

KTLA: Orange County teen develops early wildfire detection device

KRCR: Woman in critical condition after 3rd Davis stabbing in less than a week; search for suspect

AP News: Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking, surgeon general warns

AP News: ‘Waste of time’: Community college transfers derail students

AP News: 4 fatally shot in California in latest US mass killing

KPIX: Researchers raising salmon in rice fields to save dwindling population

KPIX: California redwoods suffering from effects of climate change-fueled weather whiplash

East Bay Times: Opinon: Lack of environmental law reform threatens California’s future

KRON: Suspected Milpitas arsonist arrested

KRON: California state patrols begin to fight fentanyl crisis in San Francisco

East Bay Times: At least 6 dead in Illinois crash during dust storm

East Bay Times: Mortgage fees to rise for buyers with high credit scores, fall for those with lower scores

East Bay Times: California flooding: 80% of Sierra Nevada snowpack hasn’t melted yet

SF Chronicle: Oakland teachers set to strike starting Thursday. Here are their demands

SF Chronicle: State reparations task force’s first estimate of damages: up to $1.2M per Black resident

SFGate: Bay Area preschool teacher suspected of killing man found dead on highway

KRCR: Shasta County Employees begin two-week strike outside Shasta County Courthouse

SFGate: Driver falls 500 feet from road on Mount Tamalpais

SFGate: Humboldt Redwoods State Park officials block locals from guiding tours

AP News: Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch

AP News: At least 6 dead after dust storm causes crashes on Interstate 55 in Illinois

Financial Times: Martin Wong at Berlin’s KW Institute review — Californian psychedelia meets Asian mysticism

SFGATE: Humboldt Redwoods State Park officials block locals from guiding tours

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Seattle Times: WA lawmakers deadlocked as drugs ravage Snohomish County, rest of state

Seattle Times: As US life expectancy falls, experts cite the health impacts of incarceration

Marin Independent Journal: Marin officials envision training, housing center for firefighters

The Oregonian: SW Washington school district bans teachers from asking students’ pronouns

Mt. Shasta News: Sacramento waters rise, but Klamath Basin stays dry in 'rain shadow'

The Oregonian: How the largest Shinto shrine in U.S. came to be in tiny Washington town

The Oregonian: Gathering of Nations powwow draws tens of thousands in Albuquerque

AP News: Mississippi River waters keep rising in Iowa and Illinois

East Bay Times: Berkeley to spend quarter-million for first 24-hour public bathroom

East Bay Times: ‘Total dominance’: Steph Curry breaks NBA Game 7 record, leads Warriors over Kings

CNN: 14 million jobs worldwide will vanish in the next 5 years, new economic report finds

AP News: Brazilian police probe deadly shooting on Indigenous land

AP News: What GOP’s plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean

AP News: Wildfires in Anchorage? Climate change sparks disaster fears

AP News: Man arrested after $3M worth of drugs shipped to Maine restaurant

AP News: 1 killed when plane slams into hillside in LA neighborhood

Washington Post: Many California hospitals are near wildfire danger zones, study says

Washington Post: Scientists discover ‘spectacular’ undersea hydrothermal vents